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LARGE

Yes, LARGE was the Wordle answer on January 20, 2024 (Wordle #945).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɑːd͡ʒ//lɑɹd͡ʒ//læɹd͡ʒ/

Adjective

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

“Russia is a large country. The fruit-fly has large eyes for its body size. He has a large collection of stamps.”

Adjective

That is large (the manufactured size).

Noun

A thousand dollars/pounds.

“Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.”

Noun

One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 20, 2024 (#945).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 20, 2024 (#945).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How LARGE performs as a guess

LARGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 93 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,831 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__G_ L in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in LARGE.

First-turn measures

All four describe LARGE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.44 Entropy (bits)
93 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LARGE performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,831 Rank among openers
Opening with LARGE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,831 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,140
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
37%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S U R G E
B A R G E
L A R G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LARGE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LARGE can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
143 answers
131 answers
123 answers
123 answers
99 answers
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95 answers
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83 answers
74 answers
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48 answers
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Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for LARGE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

L1A1R1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

HOIST SIENT ONSET DROIT SOULY STAIN

Strategy after playing LARGE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LARGE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LARGE:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
6% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
6% chance
Suggested:
ONSET

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

11.8% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
6.0% →
SIENT 4.15 bits
5.5% →
ONSET 5.14 bits
5.2% →
DROIT 4.92 bits
5.2% →
SOULY 4.61 bits
4.2% →
STAIN 5.03 bits
4.1% →
SIENT 4.89 bits
4.0% →
NASTY 4.10 bits
3.9% →
PLAIT 4.23 bits
3.5% →
CHART 4.36 bits

Research on LARGE

Game-tree analysis and word research for LARGE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with LARGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #633 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with LARGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it LAHRJ.

Rhymes with BARGE MARGE SARGE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LARGE is a kind of size.

Synonyms GREAT big HEAVY prominent important SUPER

Opposites SMALL insignificant

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LARGE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 245 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

This is as large as that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Was it so large as that?
© tatoeba.org contributor shanghainese (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).